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LordAtlas··on Introduction to Microsoft Excel (1992) [video]
It was posted on Reddit a few days ago and got a lot of traffic and comments.
LordAtlas··on The ACLU Has Lost Its Way
> She publicly stated on many occasions that she thought Roe vs Wade was bad law.

Interesting. Do you have link(s) to read more about this?

LordAtlas··on Airbnb Q1
Probably means availability of Wi-Fi / Internet access, something that should be a given at any room rental. But as I've found out while searching, sometimes it isn't. That's why I always add "Wi-fi" in the filters.

I agree with OP though. If you change the available amenities after the booking has been made, you've deceived the customer and they should be eligible for an immediate refund.

LordAtlas··on 37signals: Hello Again
Their new website design seems too smug and full of themselves, which is on brand, I suppose.
LordAtlas··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
> If I do not want to see tweets that contain certain words or phrases, block it.

You can already mute words on Twitter.

LordAtlas··on Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi (2015)
Gosh, "watery gel" nails it. I thought there was something wrong with me because I just couldn't see the appeal of garden variety akami sashimi. And I loved most salmon. I did have otoro and chutoro at a high-end place and that was a completely different experience. But other than that, I just don't like plain jane tuna.
LordAtlas··on Ask HN: How can this happen without the phone covertly listening?
Ah, the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
LordAtlas··on Back to India
All too well, unfortunately.
LordAtlas··on What are you doing, WordPress.com?
It's straight out of 1998.
LordAtlas··on What are you doing, WordPress.com?
That's strange. I can read it fine in both normal and incognito windows. Try this instead? https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Frootprivileges.net%2F2...
LordAtlas··on The Problem with Jon Stewart
> There were 4 major publications including Forbes (unexpected) and the Guardian (expected) that lamented 'Will Smith's Slap' was really a problem of 'White Supremacy' - effectively indicting 'Whiteness' as the cause of all of this malaise.

I thought this was hyperbole, but you were not kidding!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/29/white-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maiahoskin/2022/03/28/while-wer...

This is absolutely asinine!

LordAtlas··on If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
And they also intend to charge $10 per month (and that's just for 20 searches per day, which is a WTF low number). There's no way I'm paying that kind of money.
LordAtlas··on About Safety Mode and autoblock by Twitter
If you have a verified "blue tick" account, you could lose your blue tick if you do that.
LordAtlas··on We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA
I might attribute this to Hanlon's Razor. On the other hand, that's not very flattering to them either.
LordAtlas··on Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
Not to mention that having any kind of client-related document on an online service like Google that's indexing the content (at the least) is probably a violation of attorney-client privilege.
LordAtlas··on Ukraine's government raises crypto worth $8M in crowdfunding appeal
Who knows how much that will be worth tomorrow? Or a week/month from now.
LordAtlas··on Logging at Twitter
The number of times Splunk is mentioned in that, it feels like one of those "SEO-optimised" content marketing articles for Splunk.
LordAtlas··on Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for healthcare and standard of living (2019)
As an Indian, no.
LordAtlas··on Twitter Problems?
Well, my productivity just went up.
LordAtlas··on Are Today’s Portraitists Better Than the Old Masters?
This is true of many things in life. The branding and marketing is more important than actual quality. :)
LordAtlas··on For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
I don't see many people signing up with the pricing plans they have in mind.
LordAtlas··on Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
> - terribly slow synchronization between phone and Desktop, catching up on a few hundred messages takes minutes

I agree with everything you wrote. In principle, I'd like to support Signal but their UX is terrible for such things. Tried using it for a group and it was so painful. My phone was constantly warning me about it chewing up battery, and message sync between the desktop app was like it was using a 14.4K modem from 1994. I simply could not use it meaningfully for group messaging. Ultimately we went back to Whatsapp. But hey, at least they fixed the Fisher Price background colours for group messages.

Here in India, everyone uses Whatsapp. There was a brief time during the Whatsapp terms of service brouhaha that a bunch of people I know said they'd move to Signal, and they've all slowly moved back to Whatsapp because that's what everyone in the country uses. Seriously, it's practically infrastructure here.

LordAtlas··on Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty
I'm happy that you find joy in it, but some of us are just fine without kids and would like to keep it that way.
LordAtlas··on NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful
Damn, this sounds like the definition of "evil".
LordAtlas··on Some thoughts on writing
I would have tried to read this but the 1994 styling of the page made it impossible. Long lines on my laptop, no margins, tiny font size. All of which can be fixed with a few lines of CSS.
LordAtlas··on FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013)
> For my products, FAQs have always been about edge cases where I usually have no control in fixing/implementing.

If they're edge cases, they don't fit the "F" in "FAQ".

LordAtlas··on Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
I'm in India and if you're on the free CF plan, you often seem to get served from the Singapore POP instead of the Indian ones. I've seen other people on various groups complain about this too.
LordAtlas··on I'll redesign any 3 websites in less than 3 hours: (Challenge?) HN
"Google Safe Browsing recently detected phishing on boring-colden-2cca40.netlify.app. Phishing sites pretend to be other websites to trick you."

Edit: Checked in Firefox. I'll be polite and just leave it at "Oh, dear."

LordAtlas··on I'll redesign any 3 websites in less than 3 hours: (Challenge?) HN
Sorry, I was being tongue-in-cheek if that wasn't obvious. This site needs to be dragged about two decades into 2021 and I was taking a dig at the effort needed. ;)
LordAtlas··on I'll redesign any 3 websites in less than 3 hours: (Challenge?) HN
Oh c'mon, be reasonable!
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